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Originally Posted by Ohio
You sound like Mr. Spock. Lighten up, it was just a joke. Sounded like you were going to blow a fuse.
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And therein lies the problem with written comments and responses. It is sometimes impossible to determine what is serous and what is tongue-in-cheek.
And one of the reasons that I started with "not sure how to answer this one."
And my response was to speak to the possibility of a serious comment. It wouldn't be the first time that a comment like that had been made by almost any one of us in both a serious way and at least one other time in jest. And I am probably guilty of the same thing at times. Make an unclear comment that was intended to be just a little too much for comic effect and end out with someone taking offense at it.
And it turns out you were only joking (sounds like a Rod Stewart song). But even so, there have been some who would say something just like that and mean it. So the response may not be totally useless.